I've always considered the comments section to be one of the most important aspects of a blog. The diversity of opinion it brings truly makes it the most social facet of a blog.

keep up the good work

Hope the mainstream media is listening.

Just a small clarification on the Mumbai Help Blog – it was set up by a bunch of bloggers and concerned citizens (a few from this group had also set up the tsunamihelp blogs and the worldwidehelp group) in 2005 when Bombay was hit by the floods – scroll down to the first post on this page – http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archi... .

Subsequently, it came back alive when the train bomb blasts occurred in Mumbai in 2006, with a similar post saying Can We Help You – http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-can-... (450 comments there).

So when the terror attacks happened again, some of the bloggers there, along with new contributors re-activated the blog.

Just thought I'd clarify this for all those who are wondering in the comments here!

Netra

U might want to read this conversation i had with gaurav on his blog..
http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/voices-agains...

As a reader and follower of the blog …yes i got my answer..

Hope the mainstream media is listening.

Just a small clarification on the Mumbai Help Blog – it was set up by a bunch of bloggers and concerned citizens (a few from this group had also set up the tsunamihelp blogs and the worldwidehelp group) in 2005 when Bombay was hit by the floods – scroll down to the first post on this page – http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archi... .

Subsequently, it came back alive when the train bomb blasts occurred in Mumbai in 2006, with a similar post saying Can We Help You – http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-can-... (450 comments there).

So when the terror attacks happened again, some of the bloggers there, along with new contributors re-activated the blog.

Just thought I'd clarify this for all those who are wondering in the comments here!

Netra

U might want to read this conversation i had with gaurav on his blog..
http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/voices-agains...

As a reader and follower of the blog …yes i got my answer..

@Vivek: You are right. I have been obsessed with the 11/26 Mumbai terror attack. All I can say about the interviews is that they came along, and, like always, I posted them on my blog. Here's a post that will give you a sense of what has been happening in my mind over the last two weeks.

About bloggers 'doing nothing but posting their interviews with various media giants'- well, a blog is a personal, albeit public medium. It is about sharing ones thoughts, opinions, experiences and knowledge with others. So if an individual does wish to share his/her interviews with the media, I see no reason why he/she should not. If it does get to be excessive, readers will simply stop following the blog.

However, the blog you mention is one I that I have been following for a while now and I do not believe that he is exploiting the incident as he is discussing the role of social media and citizen journalism in relation to that incident. I simply see him aggregating his conversations with other entities in one place- and why not? After all, it is HIS blog and the posts (interviews included) are relevant to what his blog is all about. If I were interviewed by someone on any issue, I don't see why it would be wrong for me to post it here and solicit comments, criticism and feedback from the readers of my blog.

As I said earlier, a blog is about sharing ones thoughts, opinions, experiences and knowledge with others. In posting interviews and the like on ones blog, you're simply sharing with your readers what you have shared with someone else.

The http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/ blog was started by Peter Griffin and Sunil Nair [http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/2005/07/announcing-mumbai-help.html]. I'm not aware as to whether the folks at Pinstorm maintain it or not, although that is something we could ask them this Saturday

The Pinstorm folks have done a pretty fantastic job. Hope you've seen their latest initiative with the BCPT and GiveIndia: [http://helpmumbai.pinstorm.com/]